The VLC media player finally stabilized

The revision of the version number also indicates that there have been very serious things - the last one for six years has been!

Those who may not know the title program in the title: VLC is a free and open source platform-independent multimedia player and framework that plays the most popular multimedia files. It's totally free, practically all-time (we do not have to bump into codecs), it runs on many platforms, supports extensions, and even its appearance can be thoroughly converted. The main novelties of the 3.0 version (Vetinari) are as follows:

Hardware acceleration has been activated for all platforms (for H.264 and H.265 encoding, both 8 and 10 bits)

Play 4K @ 60fps and 8K with Low (Abb) CPU Load

The code for the mobile expense has been merged

HDR and HDR tone mapping support

Updated audio pass-through for HD Audio codecs

Explore local network drives (SMB, FTP, SFTP, NFS, etc.)

Safer password management

A new subtitle engine with complex text layout and font fallback (with alternative fonts if the font does not contain the required signal) with support

ChromeCast support with the new framework

Support for new formats and codecs, such as WebVTT, AV1, TTML, HQX, 708 and Cineform

360 degree video and 3D audio support, preparing for VR content

Updated interface on MacOS system - with some code cleanup

HiDPI GUI in a Windows-based environment

The Wayland (Graphical Display Server) experimental support is made on Linux, OpenGL has become the default